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Concha: A Military Macaw’s Return to the Wild

Breeding and fledging in the wild does not always unfold as expected. For one young Military Macaw at El Santuario de las Guacamayas in Mexico, the journey from nest to sky required time, patience, and careful management. Last year, a...

February 25, 2026

IUCN Red List changes: a mixed picture for parrots

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IUCN Red List changes: a mixed picture for parrots

IUCN Red List changes: a mixed picture for parrots The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has published the 2025 Red List assessment of the world’s birds, with three parrot species being uplisted (moved to a more threatened category),...

October 24, 2025

Supporting tomorrow’s parrot conservation leaders: Ifeanyi Ezenwa reflects on the Oxford Masterclass on Mitigating Illegal Wildlife Trade

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Supporting tomorrow’s parrot conservation leaders: Ifeanyi Ezenwa reflects on the Oxford Masterclass on Mitigating Illegal Wildlife Trade

Building capacity among conservation leaders is central to WPT’s mission to protect parrots. Nigeria Programme coordinator, Ifeanyi Ezenwa, recently completed a multi-week course delivered by the University of Oxford on mitigating the illegal wildlife trade and reflects on here on...

October 20, 2025

Progress for Parrots at the IUCN World Conservation Congress

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Progress for Parrots at the IUCN World Conservation Congress

Progress for Parrots at the IUCN World Conservation Congress IUCN members at the World Conservation Congress in Abu Dhabi have voted to adopt a motion calling for the creation of urgently needed global guidelines to help countries manage the commercial...

October 15, 2025

Grey Parrots get new protections in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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Grey Parrots get new protections in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Grey Parrots get new protections in the Democratic Republic of Congo Grey Parrots (Psittacus erithacus), one of the world’s most heavily trafficked parrot species, are now fully protected by law in the Democratic Republic of Congo following the passing of...

August 29, 2025

Yellow-naped Amazon Breeding Success in Guanaja, Honduras.

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Yellow-naped Amazon Breeding Success in Guanaja, Honduras.

Yellow-naped Amazon Breeding Success A new generation of Critically Endangered Yellow-naped Amazons (Amazona auropalliata) has taken to the skies in Guanaja, Honduras, thanks to the tireless work of our partners at Green Island Challenge. During the 2024–2025 breeding season, 30...

July 1, 2025

Sequencing of full genomes of Lovebirds paves the way for conservation science

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Sequencing of full genomes of Lovebirds paves the way for conservation science

Sequencing of full genomes of Lovebirds paves the way for conservation science World Parrot Trust scientists, working with the University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Chicago and Iridian Genomes, have just published the complete genomes of all nine living Lovebird species....

June 28, 2025

Conservation in Action: Latin American Parrot Experts Trained at FlyFree Workshop

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Conservation in Action: Latin American Parrot Experts Trained at FlyFree Workshop

Latin American Parrot Experts Trained at FlyFree Workshop In May 2025, the World Parrot Trust hosted a FlyFree Workshop in the heart of Copán Ruinas, Honduras. This area is rich in natural and cultural heritage and is home to one...

June 27, 2025

Climbing for Conservation: Equipping Rangers to Protect the Fuertes’s Parrot

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Climbing for Conservation: Equipping Rangers to Protect the Fuertes’s Parrot

Climbing for Conservation: Equipping Rangers to Protect Fuertes’s Parrot From December 6–9, 2024, rangers from ProAves’ reserves across Colombia joined forces with the World Parrot Trust for a transformative tree-climbing field course at the Loro Fuertesi Reserve—the stronghold of the...

December 23, 2024

Against All Odds: Bones’ Journey Back to the Wild

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Against All Odds: Bones’ Journey Back to the Wild

Bones: A Yellow-shouldered Amazon and a True Survivor Bones’ life began in the wild but it was quickly torn apart by poachers. Smuggled aboard a boat, he endured a terrifying journey with 32 other parrots. By the time the Coast...

December 1, 2024

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